New PC, some time off, free papercraft downloads

 

New PC, some time off, free papercraft downloads 

 

 Hello beautiful people!

 

Heads up that my work PC recently broke down and I am currently transferring all of my programs and stuff I am working with and on, on a new laptop. It will take some time to set it up, and it´s the summer time anyway, not much going on.

 

I therefore decided to close commissions foreseeable till the beginning of September. That way I can get some much needed rest and set up my new rig in peace. (I will also go on vacation in the middle of September, so that week I also won´t be working, but that will get updated in another post when the time is right).

 

For anybody wanting to order or inquire a commission, these will be open starting September again, so you´ll have to wait in the meantime.

 

The work will pile up anyway and since I said I will prioritize my health over anything else, the work is slower but therefore the way it should be and more quality-rich. The backlog on things I made months ago is also, finally, depleting, so there might be weeks that I will not have anything to post as new stuff. And that is completely OK.

 

I am only 1 person working on these huge projects, papercrafts take time and dedication, as anybody ever working on an assembly alone knows, and you need a lot of patience and time for them. No machine is ever going to replace the work I put into my papercraft designs, and I will never use AI stolen slop in 2D or 3D form. The work I do stays manual and it always will, therefore taking much time to make them. If you do not like the way I work or think, you may happily choose another papercraft designer and enjoy their work or do your own designs (:

The way I do things, is the way I do things, and I will never support stolen AI crap they are shoving into our faces as “necessary work evolution” and destroying the only beautiful natural resources for us to life on and off of, the one actual evolution that took millions of years to develop and they think because they have their “money” concept we somehow value and live by, they can destroy it in a few decades. FU alllll the way!

 

In the meantime, we have almost 10 batches of freebies (now over 27 new free papercrafts + 160 old ones) I have been posting on my Patreon page for this summer: https://www.patreon.com/antyyyspapercrafts. They are all freely accessible without needing any subscriptions, login or anything else, just find the post, click the ZIP and download it.

 

I´ll be sure to keep the page running, and more awesome ideas and characters are on their way, so no worries. Nobody is stopping Antyyy from doing papercrafts, ever!!! Papercrafts are my life!!! If they didn´t stop me for 15 years, they surely won´t now.

 

Enjoy and happy crafting~

Summer freebies, FREE papercrafts

Summer freebies, FREE papercrafts

As already announced in this:

https://www.deviantart.com/antyyy/art/Antyyy-s-Papercrafts-3-0-CLEANUP-1348668993

I have started distributing more FREE papercrafts on my Patreon page:

 https://www.patreon.com/antyyyspapercrafts

My Patreon page is exclusively for FREE papercraft downloads only, so each of them are all freely accessible without needing any subscriptions, login or anything else, just find the post, click the ZIP and download it.

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I am sharing updated with the “status update” thing on DA, but as everything on there, it’s a useless feature nobody looks at anyway, so people miss the posts. That’s why I made a quick update to remind people that they are up and ready for assembly!

Till now we have the following freebies: Callowing (Fakemon), Fearesa (Fakemon), Beelzebub (Sand Land), Appletun (Pokemon), Bellossom (Pokemon), OC Avocado pair, Abomasnow (Pokemon), Chespin snowman (Pokemon), Froakie snowman (Pokemon), Pikachu Snowfairy (Pokemon), Gookey (Pokemon), Scorbunny (Pokemon), Sobble (Pokemon), and Ramby (Fakemon).

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Also, PLEASE REMEMBER, papercrafts are made to be ASSEMBLED and enjoyed while being displayed in your rooms, given as gifts, etc. The point of them is that you are able to make figurines out of flat print paper templates, and transform those flat paper parts into amazing figures that you yourselves make with your own 2 hands and be proud of the art you are able to do and that they make you happy. And not for collecting digital dust on your PCs for trades, hoarding, or anything like that. If they are not enjoyed in their full forms and build, what is even the point in having them, right? -- That’s why I hope to see many of them being shared as assembled and build papercrafts online on many platforms. You can also send me pictures of them in a message, so I can share and display them on my pages in your name. I would love that! I am always so happy to see pictures of them brought to life! (:

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The bunch of free papercrafts I am sharing was already over +150 designs big, and now I am adding even more of them! Hopefully you’ll find something you like and have a great summer. Many more to come in the following months as well!!!

Enjoy and happy crafting~

Antyyy's Papercrafts 3.0 CLEANUP

Antyyy's Papercrafts 3.0 CLEANUP

As already stated in the “under construction” post:

https://www.deviantart.com/antyyy/art/Antyyy-s-Papercrafts-UNDER-CONSTRUCTION-3-0-1345160237

I have been doing an extensive cleanup on all of my pages and deleting older posts that were not up to my standards anymore, as well as made some updates on my descriptions, links, etc. etc.

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What you basically need to know from this is:

1.    All 100% available FREE papercrafts of mine are still on my Patreon page.

All of the older scrapped designs that I saved from the cleanup will be posted at a regular base on here (about 30 of them during the duration of this summer). All of the removed papercrafts that were FREE and the new ones that will be made FREE are on there and will continue to be there. My Patreon is for FREE downloads only and it will remain so. They are freely accessible without needing any subscriptions, login or anything else, just find the post, click the ZIP and download it.

2.    When I remove a papercraft design from my pages, I do it for a reason.

If I removed a papercraft design of mine from either my Ko-fi shop or from Patreon, I have removed them with intent and it is not an error. They are not available anymore and I will not sell or share them. Do not ask for old designs, because you will not get them. You will find countless old designs still remaining on either dead links or shared with a picture, because I have been in business for over +10 years. Old things get deleted and removed all the time, and some traces of them stay on the internet still (because everything on the internet is forever), but if they are not on Ko-fi or Patreon, I have deleted them. Poof and gone forever.

3.    About 20 of the older papercrafts I have removed, will be completely refurbished and made into new re-designed crafts. Some of the motives and characters are still popular, and I wanted to make them look fresher and better, so those will be released when I make them.

4.    Quality instead of Quantity: I will be drastically slowing down my business starting July.

I will probably share 1 new papercraft each week, and the other update I will post a few of the FREE papercrafts on my Patreon in batches. I want to not start focusing on quality over quantity and that needs time.

You know I have been in this papercraft-selling and designing business for over 10 years now without any stop, I have always been open for commissions and I have powered through countless projects in these years. But it has just become a lot to keep up and manage as a 1-woman-business, and 1 human being alone is capable of making only a limited progress each day with new papercraft designs + maintaining a full 8-hour work schedule + maintaining my pages and shop sales + commissions. So, to ensure I keep on powering on with my work and to make many newer papercrafts in the future years to come, it will slow down for a while. Antyyy needs a social life as well, so it is what it is.

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I think these are the basic things I wanted to share with this update.

I wanted to share my thoughts with all of you not only so you know what will happen in the future and why things are as they are, but because I wanted to make a pledge to myself with the quality I need to uphold in the future and to really slow things down so I won’t fall into the same pattern of workload I was doing before.

Enjoy the new releases and I hope you look forward to many more years of new designs from me in the future. Happy crafting~

Antyyy's Papercrafts UNDER CONSTRUCTION 3.0

Antyyy's Papercrafts UNDER CONSTRUCTION 3.0

I believe it has been quite a few years since the last »purge« so to speak, so it's about time we do some cleanupin with my posts. As you know, or now know, I always try to do some cleaning up with my old papercraft files, but because of the sheer number of things I have released over the years, the sheer mass of stuff demands some beforehand planning for the actual execution. And what better time to do this then with the start of summer and summer holidays!

It is maybe the 4th, or even 5th “under construction” editing of posts I did over the years I have been in business, but I delete my old stuff all the time, so I can’t keep track of it anymore XD but who cares, I decided it’s going to be the 3.0 cleaning up and the 3.0 new start of quality-made papercraft designs I am still making for probably over 15 years now.

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So, what does that mean for you? It means I will be deleting quite a few of my old designs that do not fit my quality-made trademark anymore, since my papercraft skills and designs steadily improve and I do not want any half-assed and half-ugly papercrafts to represent the work that I do.

Most of my old designs will be removed and deleted completely from my shop and they will not be available online anywhere anymore. However, some of them that are still usable and fit my well-made criteria will be shared for FREE as freebies on my Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/c/antyyyspapercrafts) , where I share FREE papercraft downloads only.

Anything and everything I don’t like will be removed, most deleted for good, some shared for free, and a few remade sometime in the distant future.

So, whatever older designs you wanted to make in my files, now is the time to buy them still, because I don’t guarantee for any of them to stay online for a long time anymore. And you can also look forward to many free releases during the summer (; Now, isn’t that great?

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I realize that with the sheer number of papercrafts I make and the current shitty economic state of the world, it is quite useless to have this many papercrafts in my shop that are unmanageable. I would like to focus more on quality-made papercraft designs as much as I can, and make everybody enjoy papercrafts with free releases I have been neglecting over the past few years. The freebies are long overdue, since I have been mostly focusing on commissions this past year and those alone take up most of my design time for my work.

I know that a lot of papercraft designers and artists have quit during these few last years, and the ones remaining are just a handful of good ones, most just trying to scramble-up AI slop to make a few bucks, so there are fewer and fewer actually good templates out there with even less people that are willing to make them. So, this cleanup is somewhat of a redemption ark, trying to do the right thing, making papercrafts available and downloadable for everybody to assemble.

There will always be bad apples in the community, but if I focus just on the shitty ones stealing designs, ideas and patterns and being lazy asses re-selling my work won’t get anybody anywhere. These are the main reasons I do not like to share my patterns for free, but I have come to see that sharing almost nothing for free is the wrong way in fighting this type of behavior. Leading with a good example and work ethic is the way to motivate far more people that actually respect this line of work and dedication to this artform. This is the way in expanding the community with good people that love crafts and want to put their own work and time into it. Making the community bigger and better and actually positive should be the goal of each papercraft builder out there. Only this will make papercrafting a hobby for the future, for many more generations to enjoy and for people to see the magic you can do with your own 2 hands.

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I hope I will have your support, the support of the papercraft community, in the coming years as well and you’ll make many more papercrafts you can share online with everybody.

Wish me luck, bear with me, and in the meantime: Happy crafting~

Marik Ishtar (Yu-Gi-Oh) FREE papercraft

Marik Ishtar (Yu-Gi-Oh) FREE papercraft

What time is it?! It's time to d-d-d-d-duel!!!

Who doesn’t know that phrase in the 21th century by now? I mean, Yu-Gi-Oh has developed into a really huge and diverse franchise that is loved by many, from digital games, to actual card collecting, figurines, anime, plushies, manga, you name it, they have it!

And one of the super-fans, the amazing and awesome Amber2002161, wanted all of you Yu-Gi-Oh fans to have a really great December this year and has ordered a FREE commission of “Marik Ishtar” that she wanted to be shared with the world! What an awesome fan! We need more of her caliber these days more than ever.

Go visit her profile and see all the detailed work she puts into her papercraft assemblies https://www.deviantart.com/amber2002161 and leave a nice comment (or 2, or 3, or 10) and follow her new posts. I am sure she will also make this Marik papercraft as well and share those pictures, so you’ll really be able to see how this cutie looks IRL as well (:

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The papercraft itself is unfolded to 38 cm and has 11 pages to print with all the options.

It consists of a 3D model of Marik, with simple layered 2D hair to make that wild hair easier to assemble. You also have 2 options for the hands, either 3D or simple 2D versions.

Since Marik in the anime was quite inconsistently drawn in many different styles of hair and color options for his clothes, the papercraft comes with 2 different versions of colors to choose from: either blond or gray hair, a purple-ish or white-ish jacket, black or beige pants, and just skin or a black undershirt for his neck and belly as well.

And as you can see, the papercraft has some smaller parts, so I do not recommend it for complete beginners, since it has some fiddly parts to it. But nothing a bit of practice can’t fix (;

You always have a blank, locked PDO file included with any of my legit designs, free or premium, that I only share on my official pages, so you can be sure it has instructions and you can follow the simple 3D guide to assemble it for yourself.

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*To download, just follow my Patreon link bellow, find the Marik’s post, and you’ll see the ZIP file at the end of the post. Click that and the download will start. You can do that 100% free, without needing any account, subscription or anything like that. Same goes for all of my FREE papercrafts I make and release. Easy as pie (:

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***This is a FREE papercraft that you can download for free on my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/antyyyspapercrafts.

If you assemble any of them, please share the finished papercraft pictures in a post, a shared link, a tag to my page, or send pictures to me, so I can post them on my page. I am always happy to see anybody assembling my art ***

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Hope you like it! Make Amber happy and share your love for the “game king” by sharing the assembled pictures of him all over social media or any kind of pages around the globe. Show your love for this amazing franchise and hone your papercrafting skills with it as well 9;

Enjoy and happy crafting~

Arabalika (Genshin) FREE papercraft

Arabalika (Genshin) FREE papercraft

Summer started and I wanted to sweeten up the hot and sweaty days coming with some FREE papercrafts everybody can enjoy. And I thought, why not make some cute “Genshin Impact” crafts, because everybody loves that game. And I did some of the most popular Aranara and I will be releasing a few of them each week to come so you can directly download and assemble them from my Patreon :)

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This papercraft is from the Aranara called “Arabalika”. It is unfolded to 17 cm and has 3 pages to print.

NOTE: The stem does need to be additionally reinforced with some wire or similar, to make it stand firmly, because it’s just a 2D 2-sided part.

Also note that some parts might not be 100% accurately textured as they look in the game, because I did these with reference pictures only, since none of them are available as 3D models. So, if they don’t look completely the same as in the game, I am sorry and I hope you still find them fun to assemble and super cute, as I do :)

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*** This is a FREE papercraft that you can download for free on my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/antyyyspapercrafts.

If you assemble any of them, please share the finished papercraft pictures in a post, a shared link, a tag to my page, or send pictures to me, so I can post them on my page. I am always happy to see anybody assembling my art :) ***

*No worries, the files are 100% accessible for FREE, without needing to an account, a subscription or anything (as are all of my FREE papercrafts I post). Just click the link, find the post of the version you want to build, click on the files, and there they are.

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Hope I get to see a lot of new papercrafts being made with these.

Enjoy and happy crafting~

Grizzbolt (Palworld) FREE papercraft

Grizzbolt (Palworld) FREE papercraft

Long story short: Everybody loves the game! Why? Because we are sick and tired of Nintendo and how they are dealing with their games and FANS throughout the many years they have been in business. I say FU Nintendorks, it’s about time you get some serious competition and actually start to make good stuff again and LISTEN to the feedback the fans voice to you and start to appreciate us more.

                 

As for the papercraft, this is the modified model of the Palworld pal “Grizzbolt”, since it’s an awesome crossover of Pikachu and Electabuzz and I decided to do a quick, simple papercraft of it. The unfold is about 20 cm tall and has 5 pages to print. The smaller parts would be the fur and the claws, but you always have the blank PDO included, so it’s all easy-peasy.

The papercraft, as all of my FREE papercraft, can be download from my Patreon page (without needing an account, subscription or anything, just click on the zip file bellow and you are good to go):

https://www.patreon.com/antyyyspapercrafts

   

*** This is a FREE papercraft that you can download for free on my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/antyyyspapercrafts.

If you assemble any of them, please share the finished papercraft pictures in a post, a shared link, a tag to my page, or send pictures to me, so I can post them on my page. I am always happy to see anybody assembling my art :) ***

       

I hope you enjoy the cutie and share some pictures of the assembly if you make it. Happy crafting~

Pikachu ice cream FREE built papercraft

Pikachu ice cream FREE built papercraft

Already released my ice cream Pikachu papercraft you can download for FREE on my Patreon page (without needing any account or anything as well btw.). So, you can see that template preview here:

https://www.deviantart.com/antyyy/art/Pikachu-ice-cream-Pokemon-FREE-papercraft-972523778

And I also made an assembly of the cutie, so you know how he looks like and that I can provide some tips along the way on how you can build it in a simpler way. So here we go.

            

ASSEMBLY TIPS:

This papercraft is actually divided into smaller separate parts, as you can see in the PDO file that is alongside the download to help you with the assembly. So, best way is to make each of the parts separate and then join them in the end. The parts are: The Pikachu scoop, the whipped cream with the cherry and the cone itself.

So, start with the optional whipped cream hat and basically just build it from top to bottom, and in the end, put the end 2D part of the melting end on the 3D parts and glue it together. Then just ass the 2D, 2-sided cherry on top and it’s done. – This part is optional, because it’s smaller and has fiddlier parts to make, so if you are not that versed with the assembly and still want a cute melding cone of Pikachu, just leave it out and no harm done. But, if you make it, you can either glue it on his head, or just put it on like that and move it around.

Next is the Pikachu scoop itself. I suggest you make the 2 ears first. In the template and the PDO itself, you will see that the ears are not completely joined together and that there is a hole on the bottom part. This way, it’s super simple to make and the hole isn’t visible in the end.

Make the ears and set them aside. Now, we can make the 2d, 2-sided tail. *Pro-tip: As always, as already told several times with my tips and tricks, I glued a wire inside the 2 parts of the tail, since it can be moved and it stands well that way. I glued the wire inside, and made sure that 1/3 of the wire stands out, so that part in glued on the inner side of the body. I did this by making a small incision on the back part of the body and put the tail through it, and after gluing the wire with tape on the inside. That way you got a sturdy, movable tail that is really cool looking and functional. It sounds harder than it is to make, you can see from the pictures how it goes in so you can try it for yourself.

Next, start making the Pikachu body from top to bottom, and when you get to the head parts, glue the 2 pre-made ears inside. And make the incision for the tail with the wire on the second stripe of the back body and glue it inside nicely with some sturdy tape.

All you got to do now is to make the remaining part of the body, when you come to the edge FIRST make sure to glue on all the droops of ice cream on there first and LAST glue on the bottom flat part to partially close it. That way, the flaps of the droops won’t be seen and the bottom will be nice and flat.

All that is left to do is to make the cone. You can either glue it from top to bottom or bottom to top and close it with the flat top or bottom part at the end, and the cone is done.

Now you can assemble and either place or glue together all 3 parts and your Pikachu scoop is done :)

      

The papercraft can be downloaded for FREE from my Patreon page, where I also post all of my other FREE papercrafts and some premium content that isn’t shared anywhere else for my Premium Patreon supporters:

https://www.patreon.com/antyyyspapercrafts

***This is a FREE papercraft that you can download for free on my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/antyyyspapercrafts.

If you assemble any of them, please share the finished papercraft pictures in a post, a shared link, a tag to my page, or send pictures to me, so I can post them on my page. I am always happy to see anybody assembling my art :)***

                           

I hope you enjoy the cute Pokemon ice cream and it helps you to cool down in these hot summer days XD And that I get to see some cute pictures of the cone Pokemon as well, I love seeing assemblies from other people ;) Enjoy and happy crafting~